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NORFOLK — Thirty-six good minutes trumped four spotty ones and extended Hampton University’s basketball season at least one more day. The sixth-seeded Pirates weathered poor free-throw shooting and a Maryland Eastern Shore comeback for a 76-71 win Thursday in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinal at Scope. “I thought we played beautifully for 36 minutes,” HU coach Ed Joyner Jr. said. “I thought for 36 minutes we put on a clinic. But in the last (four) minutes, mainly because of free throws, we allowed them to get back into the ball game. But at the end I’m proud of my guys because they gutted it out.” Hampton (14-17)...

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